we all back on track again now - no more slip sliding with ice and bikes and whatever?
Its strange Gum, I typed the āSlipā pun before todays adventure, thatāll teach me.
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funny that heh - it might be called wishful thinking or projecting the future? or your guardian angel giving you a warning heh??
Yes Gum, it might be time to remove the blinkers.
hereās a nice new age oirish song for Jem!
Thanks for that lovely song Gummy. 
All I can say about this covid thing is that Iām sick to the teeth hearing all the different versions and theories, but then thereās no getting away from it is there?, but just to make my position clear on the subject as it stands nowā¦
When this covid thing started I took all the governments advice as did the wife, and like good citizens off we marched off the clinic to have our vaccinations.1,2, and 3.
Now they keep changing the rules and feeding us with all sorts of bullshit, this works, that doesnāt work, do this, no do that, they just havenāt a clue how to fix it all, yet they wonāt admit it.
We are now in the position that neither the wife, my family, and me donāt believe a word they say, and the UK government are not the only government who dished out lucrative supply deals to their mates, it happened here too.
Something is not right about this whole thing, more and more people are losing confidence in our leaders, and when that happens big time like now, itās some job trying to get the public to believe anything they say in the future.
Something definitely stinks about all this, but weāll never know the truth because truth is dead and buried now, especially where politics are concerned. 
One of the wifeās widowed sisters called in to us today, she never has much to say and she only calls when she needs something done. This time it was a heavy parcel she needed to collect from Argos so Phyllis kindly volunteered me for the job. 
All the way into town and all the way back she only uttered about ten words, āIāll be back in a minuteā, as she went to the desk to collect her goods, and āāThank you Jimmyā as I dropped it on the hall table of her house. Silence is golden with her when sheās sober, but give her a few jars and thereās no stoppin her yappin. 
It reminded me of the scene in the western āMan of the Westā 1958, where Gary Cooper wantās to go into town to case the bank job alone because his face is not known in the town, all the others have been seen in the town before except Charlie, whoās the quiet and not too bright member of the gang, every gang has a Charlie in it.
Lee J. Cobb doesnāt trust Cooper and says:
āYou can take Charlie with youā
Cooper: āI said I would go aloneā
Cobb: āBeing with Charlie is like being aloneā 
I know lots of fellas like Charlie and I laugh every time I think of that scene.
Boris has always been a favourite of mine, no not the tory fella.
Iāve always liked Boris Karloff in films, I believe he was a real gentleman in his own person.
He may not be pin-up material but his personality, modesty, and frankness more than made up for his lack of good looks, howās this for honesty when a reporter asked him about his film roles:
āYou could heave a brick out of a window and hit ten actors who could play my parts. I just happened to be on the right corner at the right timeā
So there you have it, he looked like that because he was hit by a brick while standing at a street corner.
Iāve never been on a plane and never willā¦ and hereās why.
No cigarettes that spur those nasty faces
A Ryanair ticket for tiny cramped up spaces
The liners shaky wings
These worrying things
Remind me never to fly.
A screw comes loose on the left jet engine
And petty soon all your hair is singeinā
Youāre in a steep dive
While still alive
Remind me never to fly.
Ah the golden calm voice of dear Ella Fitz.
sometimes Jem you can be a very very naughty boy as John Cleeses mummy said in some film - does Phyllis know about these proclivities of yours or do you just come here for therapy??
Jem if Ella sings this line in the song āA cigarette that bears a lipstickās tracesā then who is she singing about - a boyfriend who wears lipstick of girlfriend who does??
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āJem if Ella sings this line in the song āA cigarette that bears a lipstickās tracesā then who is she singing about - a boyfriend who wears lipstick of girlfriend who does??ā
Ah ha ya clever little devil, now who would have spotted that!, bejayus yer as sharp as a razor Gummy, thereās not much that gets past you. A fella or a girl?, well you know what they say, it takes all sorts to make a world, especially these days.
I have noticed with my new smart highest resolution TV that when watching the old Technicolor films how the makeup and especially the lipstick shows up clearly on all of the male actors, Edward G Robinson is some sight with lipstick on I can tell you, as is Victor Manure, I wonāt even mention Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin, John Wayne looks very effeminate in āArmani Redā, no wonder his middle name is Marian.
Duke Wayne how are yeh!, he looked more like Ducky Wayne.
When I was a lad courting Phyllis we went to the pictures at least twice a week, I always had two suits made to measure every year, thanks to the Provident cheque company.
She used to pile the āPanstickā makeup onto her dial, then when she put her head on my shoulder it would stick to the collar of me suit ruining it, I used to have to remove it when I got home with white spirits then leave it in an airy place to kill the smell of the spirits. Eventually I got wise to myself and Iād remove me jacket when we were seated.
I used to play this song on the juke box in the chipper, but she never got the message. The young song writers back then knew the score and they would write songs to help you out of sticky situations, they had consideration, remember Sam Cookeās āDonāt cry on my shoulder, rely on somebody olderā?
āYou donāt need war paint, youāre not going to fight a war youāre only going out with the boy next doorā
I need more time for this, I have other stuff going on, I hope gummy understands this before he charges in with his size nines. 
well Iām goin back for a second listen - this sounds interesting - could be onto an age old nuther John Wayne incidence??
talk about shooting yaself in the left foot!
" What is the meaning of the song these foolish things?
Maschwitz was romantically linked to the Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong while working in Hollywood during the early thirties, and the lyric for āThese Foolish Thingsā is supposedly evocative of his longing for her after they parted and he returned to England.
apparently Nat King Cole was the first person to publicly sing the song - so fine fits the bill of the times ; Billy May then continued to promote it - yuz all remember Billy heh but then those smart floozies wanted to get a handle on it but I doubt that Ella was or wasnāt she well some more research needed perhaps here - Holmes we may be onto something here - Spits bring my shooting piston and Saracen we need to travel fast!
Welcome to this world Gummy 
nah hit a blank wall there - couldnāt even find any lipstick on her collar! - think she just liked the song and sang it simple as that - but these days in our politically correct world yaz jest gotta be careful bless ya cotton sock Ella - actually her wikipedia page makes fascinating reading both fascinating and sad in parts as you can imagine - well hereās lipstick on ya collar toots - of all the places in all the towns etc etc ps: bring me my bow of burning oil ;ā bring me my saracen of desire then we will find Jerusalem on Englands green and golden fields!!
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The scriptures talk of many swords and battles, I know they are metaphorical but, what happens to a Lover, not a fighter?
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the greater love hath no man etc etc - and the first commandment is??? and the second ???